Five Faculty Members Honored with Named Professorships
March 20, 2023 Campus News FacultyOn March 7, the Georgetown Law community celebrated the achievements of five faculty members who have been awarded named professorships and chairs.
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Liz Magill Named Executive Vice President and Dean of Georgetown Law
M. Elizabeth Magill, the former dean of Stanford Law School, provost of the University of Virginia and president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the executive vice president and dean of Georgetown Law.
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In Memoriam: Simone Woung, L’97
March 18, 2023 Campus News Our AlumniSimone Woung, L’97, Georgetown Law Assistant Dean and Registrar, passed away on March 17 after a brief illness.
ACLU President Challenges Law School Clinics to Push for Systemic Change and Racial Justice
March 13, 2023 Campus News Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Clinics Faculty Impacting Change Our Alumni Public Interest & Community Service Race & LawSome ninety professors, activists, students, lawyers and other stakeholders from across the country gathered at Georgetown Law March 3 for a day-long symposium titled “Promoting Justice: Advancing Racial Equity through Student Practice in Legal Clinics…
January 6 Investigators Discuss Domestic Extremist Groups – Then and Now
March 2, 2023 Campus News Congress Constitutional Law & TheorySix former staffers of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol reunited at Georgetown Law last week to discuss their work investigating the role domestic extremist groups played – on the day of January 6, 2021, in the planning beforehand and in the two years since.
The Re-entry Interview: After Securing Landmark International Tax Agreement, Prof. Itai Grinberg Returns to Campus
February 23, 2023 Campus News Faculty International Economic Law Tax LawProfessor Itai Grinberg’s last two years have been busy ones, full of travel to international capitals, seven-day work weeks and 16-hour days of meetings and negotiations. But in the end, he helped achieve a top item on the United States’ international economic agenda: a first-ever global minimum corporate tax (GMT).
The January 6 Committee: Understanding its Innovation and Impact
February 3, 2023 Campus News CongressIt’s not often that a Congressional oversight committee hearing can draw the same number of TV viewers as a prime-time football game. But last October, some 20 million people tuned into the first public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
Georgetown Law Hosts Prosecutor General of Ukraine
February 3, 2023 Campus News Human Rights & Immigration Impacting Change International & Comparative Law National Security LawWhile visiting Washington this week, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriy Kostin, stopped at Georgetown Law to take part in an event highlighting the efforts of the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine (ACA), an international justice initiative established last year by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom to support Ukraine’s efforts to document and prosecute war crimes and other atrocities perpetrated against its citizens.
In ‘Week One’ Experiential Classes, Students Get to Ask the Questions
January 25, 2023 Campus News Our AlumniThe first year of law school is famously dedicated to mastering legal doctrine and distinguishing fact patterns in casebooks – from contracts to torts to civil procedure. While the work is foundational, it’s still a few degrees of separation from real-world law. But at Georgetown Law, every January, 1L students have the chance to spend a few days getting a sneak peek at law as it’s actually practiced.
Meet Anjali Bindra Patel, Georgetown Law’s First Chief Diversity Officer
January 12, 2023 Campus News Impacting ChangeLast fall, Georgetown Law welcomed lawyer and workplace diversity expert Anjali Bindra Patel to lead the Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI). First established in 2016, OEI champions initiatives to help build and support a Law Center community where…
Georgetown Law’s Year in Review 2022
December 20, 2022 Campus NewsFrom the newsmaking research and successes of our faculty and centers and institutes to students making the most of studying law in Washington, D.C., it’s been an exciting year at Georgetown Law! Join us as we take a look back at some memorable moments from 2022.